Constantine Giannaris Trailers
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Konstantinos Giannaris (Sydney, 1959) is a Greek film director.
Born in Sydney. He studied economics, history and philosophy at Keele and Birmingham Universities in Britain. His film career began in England, where he completed short, low-budget independent films. He was involved in the 1982 experimental English documentary The Revenge of the Teenage Perverts in which gay teenagers ask English heterosexuals about their views on homosexuality. His first Greek film, A Place in the Sun in 1995, won the Best Greek Film Award at the Drama Short Film Festival. It was followed in the same year by the film Close to Paradise and in 1998 by the film From the Edge of the City, which won the second prize for Best Film of the Ministry of Culture. In 2001 he filmed Dekapentaugustos and in 2004 Homer. His films have been screened at many international film festivals and forums. His first feature film Near Paradise was financed and shot in London. Today he works and lives in Athens. He has openly declared that he is homosexual and an atheist.
Most Popular Constantine Giannaris Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
01 February 1989
Young men find themselves scattered and defencelessly exposed to a merciless sun. Their gaze moves off searchingly into the distance.
01 February 2011
A collection of 19 unpublished short videos, which the director presented for the first time at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2011.
16 November 2008
A contemporary married couple and their eight-year-old son are exposed to our observation. The husband, around 35, works as a tax specialist for an import-export firm.
04 March 2005
Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus.
01 January 1992
Movie about Pasolini by fellow gay auteur Constantine Giannaris.
18 March 1991
A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them.
01 January 1994
Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.
01 January 1991
Echoing the title of a definitive film in British cinema, A Matter of Life and Death captures an equally definitive reality of British society in the nineties: the scourge of AIDS that cost thousands of people their lives.
01 May 2004
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
10 November 2011
Alex a captain with sad past saves thirty teens Afghan refugees. With tension constantly increasing, Alex tries to tackle the company's and crew pressures.
10 February 1990
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
25 February 2016
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
01 January 1995
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
13 October 2002
Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations.
20 November 1998
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
08 November 1991
The Tuntenhaus or "House of Queers" was originally a squat on Mainzer Str. in East Berlin. This gritty verité documentary follows the fortunes of the Tuntenhaus through the days of anarchy and riots that followed German reunification to the sudden invasion by 3000 West German police, armed with tanks and tear gas in a massive operation to evict them.
01 January 1994
Three short films from Greece's greatest filmaker with Introduction to each by the filmaker: Caught Looking, Noth of Votrex, A place in the Sun.
01 January 1991
A look at “Greek love” and the reality of homosexuality in Greece in 1991. Leaders of the once-called GLBT movement (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender) or simply people who dared to stand in front of the camera and speak about their lives, paint us a clear portrait – a bigger picture that might not have changed much in the last three decades.
11 April 1983
Gay and lesbian teenagers interview straight people on the streets of London about their views on homosexuality.
01 January 1991
Caught Looking sees a lonely gay man attempt to explore his sexual fantasies with the help of an interactive computer game, guiding his virtual reality persona through a series of potential encounters (naval rough trade, a moustachioed 'clone', a 50s muscle man) while offering wry commentary on the shifting landscape of queer cruising.
24 November 1990
Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.
01 January 1989
Put on your dancing shoes! A documentary about the roots, the tradition, and the impact of disco music; about its “gay gene” and the fever it brought onto the dance floor; and about the way it got its revenge, by inspiring the music of the present and winning the acclaim it deserved.
